Improved riding or warping but



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES PERLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED RlDING OR WARPlNG BITT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,135, dated January 31, 1865.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLESy PEELEY, of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Riding or Warping Bittsy for Vessels; and I do hereby de- Clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure lis a plan7 and Fig. 2 is an elevation, of said bitts.

Similar letters indicate like parts.

ltidingbitts have heretofore been made of iron, around which the rope or chain passes, and such bitts bave been made larger at the top than the bottom, to prevent the rope slipping oft', and sometimes the said bitts are ot wood. In all instances the rope is Hattened on the side next the bitt, and after the rope has been used but a short time this dat tening becomes apparent and generally increases, as the rope in use is almost sure to .turn with its iiattest side toward the bitt,

and said grooves, whether used with a rope' or chain, prevent the same slipping up when passing ofi' at an upward inclination.

My invention does not relate to grooved capstan-barrels, as I am aware that such have before been made.

In the drawings, a is a plate bolted to the deck or place receiving the same; and b b are the bitts, formed with semicircular grooves around them, as represented. c is the rope, which may be passed around the bitts in the manner shown or crossed in an 8 form.

Ihe advantages ot this article will be apparent from the foregoing, as the rope will wear much longer than when applied to the usual riding or warping bitts, and there being a larger surface bearing on the rope the friction will be `greaterwith a less number of turns than now usual.

M y device becomes a new article of manufacture, and it will be seen that the same may have a greater or less number of grooves than represented.

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ilhe pair of grooved riding-bitls formed and applied as and for the purposes specified.

1n witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 30th day of May, A. D. 1864.

CHARLES PERLEY. Witnesses LEMUEL W. SERRELL, THos. GEO. HAEoLD. 

